WELCOME TO THE ROSS LAB
Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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Hans J. Stauss, M.D., Ph.D.
Current position: Professor and Head of Tumour Immunology Section, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, Great Britain.
Shubhangee Mungree, Ph.D.
Current position: Professor, Dept. of Biology, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL.
Tatyana Golovkina, Ph.D.
Current position:Â Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, U. of Chicago, Chicago, PA.
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Hans J. Stauss, M.D., Ph.D.
Current position: Professor and Head of Tumour Immunology Section, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, Great Britain.
Shubhangee Mungree, Ph.D.
Current position: Professor, Dept. of Biology, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL.
Tatyana Golovkina, Ph.D.
Current position:Â Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, U. of Chicago, Chicago, PA.
Denis Kapkov, Ph.D.
Current position: Hospitalist, New York Hospital Queens, NYC, NY.
Jennifer Czarneski, Ph.D.
Current position: Scientific Director, Embryon, Red Bank, NJ.
John Dzuris, Ph.D.
Current position: Director of Immunology, ImmusanT, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
John Rassa, Ph.D.
Current position: Senior Scientist, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Raritan, NJ.
John Schmidt, Ph.D.
Current position: Research Microbiologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Clay Center, NE.
Cecilia Courreges, Ph.D.
Current position: Research Associate, Ohio College of Osteopathic Medicine, OH.
Pieter van den Heuvel, Ph.D.
Current position: Senior Scientist, Vironika, LLC, Philadelphia, PA.
Enxiu Wang, Ph.D.
Current position: Senior Research Investigator, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
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Chioma Okeoma, Ph.D.
Current position: Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Pharmacology, Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
Swathi Kotla,, Ph.D..
Current position: Senior Associate, GVK Bioscience, Cambridge, MA.
Lavanya Madakasira, Ph.D..
Current position: SAS Programmer & Clinical Data Analyst, PRAN Health Sciences, Blue Bell, PA.
Christian Cuevas, Ph.D.
Current position: Senior Horizon Scanning Analyst/Clinical Writer, ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA.
Hyoung Kim, Ph.D.
Current position: Senior Research Investigator, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Spyridon Stavrou, Ph.D.
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Nouhou Ibrahim, Ph.D.
Current position: Public Health Scientist, State of MD Department of Health Laboratory, Baltimore, MD.
Yuki Nakaya, D.V.M./Ph.D.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan
Nicolas Sarute, Ph.D
Current position: Assistant Professor, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Karen Salas-Briceno, Ph.D
Current position: Assistant Professor, Breathitt Veterinary Center, Murray State University, Hopkinsville, KY.
Wenming Zhao, Ph.D
Current position: Research Scientist, Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX.
Kruthika Iyer, Ph.D
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Alyssa MacMillan (Ph.D.).
Current position: Research Scientist, NJ Department of Public Health, Newborn Screening Laboratory Trenton, NJ.
Graduate Students
Denis Henrard (Ph.D., 1988).
Current position: CEO at In Ovo, Chairman of the Board at Venomtech Ltd., Principal at DHC Consulting, Grenoble, France.
Yongwon Choi (Ph.D., 1988).
Current position: Leonard Jarrett Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Anita Seibold (Ph.D., 1990).
Current position: Surgical Pathology Fellowship at Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany.
Evelyn Mok (Ph.D., 1992).
Current position: Manager, University Relations, AbbVie, North Chicago, IL.
Kenneth Platt (Ph.D., 1992).
Director, Molecular Genetics, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., The Woodlands, TX.
Peter Denberg (M.D./Ph.D.; Ph.D., 1994).
Current position: Cardiologist, Chicago, IL.
Veronika Soloveva (Ph.D., 1996).
Current position: Principal Scientist, ChemBio, Pharmacology at Merck, Boston, MA.
Yuanming Zhang, M.D. (M.S., 2002).
Current position: Pathologist, Parkview Medical Center, Pueblo, CO.
John Zurawski, (B.A., M.S., 2001).
Current position: lawyer, Philadelphia, PA.
Jennifer Meyers, B.S. (M.S. from Thomas Jefferson University (2000).
Current position: Research specialist, USAIMRD, Frederick, MD.
David Kim, B.S. (M.S. from Thomas Jefferson University (2002).
Director, Molecular Genetics, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., The Woodlands, TX.
Alexander Sankin (B.A./M.S).
Current position: Associate Professor of Urology, Montefiore Medical Center, NY, NY.
Kristina Wellington (M.S.).
Current position: Scientist, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ.
Dalia Burzyn, B.S (Ph.D. from University of Buenos Aires, 2006).
Current position: Scientist, Jounce Therapeutics, Boston, MA.
Laura Cappelli, (B.A./M.S.).
Current position: Associate Professor of Medicine and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Alyssa MacMillan (Ph.D., 2013)
Current position: Manager, qPCR Field Applications, ThermoFisher, Philadelphia, PA
Eileen Moran (Ph.D, 2022)
Current position: Microbiologist, Applied Genetics Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.
Zhonghao (Max) Yan (Ph.D., 2024)
Current position:
POST-BACCULAUREATE STUDENTS
Dionne Robinson, B.S., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Current position: Microbiologist, US Department of Agriculture
Peris Bentley, B.A., Ph.D. Harvard University
Current position: Graduate Student, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Cristhian Cadena, B.S., Ph.D. Harvard University
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA